The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-05-12
GO AND TELL JESUS.
DR.. TALMAGE'S ADVICE TO ALL WHO
ARE IN TROUBLE.


ARE IN TROUBLE.
At No Period of Mans Life Is He
Free From Telnptation-An Who Live
Cody in Christ Must Suffer Persecu-
ton.
BRooKLYN, May Sat the Tabernacle
this morning the Rev. r. De Witt Talmage,
d. D.. gave notice of the annual pilgrimage
OF lis congregation, which this year will
be to Martha'5 Vineyard, Mass It will
begin July and end July z. DR.. Talmage
will preach at Marthas Vineyard on July 3,
and deliver an Grafton on the Fourth. The
Congregational singing at the Tabernacle sled
by cornet aud organ. A hoy choir chants
twice during the service. The hymn sung by
the congregation this morning begins:
Sun of my soul, thou Saviour dear,
It is not night if Thou be near.
DR. Talmage's text was: 'And his dis
c;ples went and told Jesus"-Matthew xiv, 12.
He said:
An outrageous assassination had just taken
place. To appease a revengeful woman,
King Herod ordered the death of that noble,
self sacrificing Christian John the Baptist.
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grief and dismay. They felt themselves ut
terly defenseless. There was no authority to
which they could appeal, and yet grief must
Glways find expression. If there be no hu-
man ear to hear it, then the agoniZed soul
will cry it aloud to the winds and the woods
and the waters. But there was an ear that
was willing to listen. There is tender
pathos, and at the same time a most admira-
BILE picture in the words of my text: ''They
went and told JesJlsn He could understand
all their grief, and he Immediately soothed it.
Our burdens are not more than half SO heavy
TO carry if another is thrust under the other
end of them Here we find Christ, his brow
shadowed with grief, standing amid the
group of disciples, who, with tears and vio-
lent gesticulations and wrnging of hands and
outcry of bereavement, are expressing their
woe Raphael, with his skillful brush put
ting upon the wall of palace some scene of
sacred story, gave not SO skillful a stroke as
when the plain hand of the evangelist writes:
"They went and told Jesus"
The old Goths and Vandals once came down
upon Italy from the north of Europe and
they upset the gardens, and they broke down
the affairs and swept away everything that
was good and beautiful. So there is ever
and anon in the history of all the sons and
daughters of our race an incursion of rough
handed troubles that came to plunder and
ransac1 and put to the torch all that men
highly priced There is no cave so deeply
cleft into the mountains as to allow us shelter,
and the foot of the fieetest courser cannot
bear us beyond the quick pursuit. The ar
rows they put to the string fly with unerring
dart, until we fall pierced and stunned.
/ feel that bring to you most appropriate
message Imean to bind up all your griefs
10 firaxv will
spark from Gods altar The same prescrip-
ton that cured the sorrow of the disciples
will cure all your heartaches l have read
that when Godfrey and his army marched out
to capture Jerusalem, as they came over the
hills, at the first flash of the pnnacles of that
beautiful city, the army that had marched in
silence lifted shout that made the earth
tremble. Oh, you soldiers of Jesus Christ,
marching on toward heaven, l would that
to-day, by some gleam from the palace of
Gods mercy and Gods strength you might
be lifted into great rejoicing, and that before
this service is ended you might raise one glad
hosanna to the LOrd
In the first place, l commend the behavior
of these disciples to all those in this audience
who are sinful and unpardoned. There
comes a time in almost every mans history
when he feels from some source that he has
have such heft as to fell him 1t may be only
like the flash in an evening cloud just after n
very hot summer day. One man to get rid
of that impression will go to prayer; another
will stimulate himself by ardent spirits, and
another man will dive deeper in secularities.
But sometimes man cannot get rid of these
impressions. The fact is, when a man finds
out that his eternity is poised upon a perfect
uncertainty, and that the next moment his
foot may slip, he must do something violent
to make himself forget where he stands, or
else fly for refuge.
If there are any here who have resolved
that they would rather die of this awful can
cer Of sin than. to have the heavenly surgeon
cut it out, let sne say, my dear brother, you
mingle for yourself a bitter cup. You fly in
the face of your everlasting interests You
crouch under yoke and you bite the dust,
when, this moment, you might rise up O
crowned conqueror. Driven and perplexed
ard harassed as you have been by sin, go and
tell Jesus To relax the grip of death from
your soul and plant your unshackled feet
upon the golden throne Christ let the tor
lures of the bloody Mount transfx Kim.
With the beam of his own cross he will break
down the door of your dungeon. From the
thorns of his own crown he will pick enough
gems TO make your brow blaze with eternal
victory In every tear on his wet cheek, in
every cash of his side, in every long, blacken
ing mark of laceration from shoulder tc
shoulder in the grave shattering, heaven
storming death groan, hear him say: "EIim
that cometh unto me, will in no wise cast
out"
"Oh" but you say, ''instead of curing my
wound you want TO make another wound
namely, that of convictioni" Have you never
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disease, and then with sharp caustic burn il
all outl So the grace of God comes to the old
sore of sin. 1t has long been ranking there
but by divine grace it is burned out through
these fires of conviction, ''the flesh coming
again as the flesh of little child;' "where
sin aboundeG, grace much more aboundeth.
With the 10000 unpardoned sins of your life
60 and tell Jesus. You will never get rid OF
your sins in any other way; and remember
that the broad invitation which 1 extend tt
you will not always be extended.
King Alfred, before modern timepiece
were invented, used to divide the day int
three parts-eight hours each-and then haC
three wax candles. BY the time the frs
candle had burned to the socket eight hour
had gone, and when the second candle haC
burned to the socket another eight hours hat
gone, and when all the three candles wer
gone out then the day had passed. Oh, tina
some of us, instead Of calculating our day
and nights and years by any earthly time
piece, might calculate them by the numbe
of opportunities and mercies which are burn
ing down and burning out, never to be re
lighted lest at last we be amid the foolisl
virgins who cried: sour lamps have gon
outn
Again | commend the behavior of the dis
ciples to all who are tempted l have hear
men in mid life say they had never been le
into temptation. If you have not felt tempta
ton it is because you have not tried to d
right. A man hoppled and handcuffed, a
long as he lies quietly, does not test the powe
of the chliu; eut when he rises up an
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